According to reports and confirmed by House GOP sources, the
House will vote on two bills as soon as Friday. House Republican
leaders hope the beefed-up plan will satisfy previously skittish
conservatives who had revolted against the original strategy,
which GOP leaders shelved Thursday because they lacked
support needed to pass it.

The two bills are the same ones that were part of the original
plan, but each is expected to be significantly bolstered as
part of the new package. Tweaks to the $659 million
border-security bill include more changes to a 2008 tracking law
that would speed up deportations of unaccompanied minors from
Central America, as well as sending money to deploy National
Guard troops on the border directly to governors.

The House will also vote on a beefed-up bill written by Rep.
Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). That legislation would
halt the expansion of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program, a unilateral directive from President
Barack Obama that shields hundreds of thousands of young
undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Many of the immigrants who have been part of the recent influx
coming over the border have been unaccompanied minors. They are
not eligible for the DACA program, but some Republicans have
argued Obama's policy has contributed to a perception among the
border crossers that they will not be sent back. This year
alone, tens of thousands of migrants from Central
America — many of them unaccompanied children — have
crossed the U.S.-Mexico border from Central American countries.

Some of the changes to the Blackburn DACA legislation, according
to a House GOP aide, include freezing funding for the program, as
well as preventing current young undocumented immigrants who
benefit from the program from renewing their applications.

Neither GOP bill likely has any chance of becoming law. A
spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid already said the
DACA legislation would be thrown in the trash when it reaches the
Senate — and that was before it was toughened up. And the White
House has threatened a veto of the House's border-security
legislation.

The Democratic-led Senate, meanwhile, also failed to pass a
$2.7 billion bill aimed at providing emergency funding for the
border crisis. It contained additional funding to aid western
states dealing with wildfires, and for the Iron Dome in Israel.
The Senate bill died, 50-44, on a procedural vote, amid mostly
Republican opposition. It needed 60 votes to
advance.